"The Tell-Tale Heart" Vocabulary Quiz

The practice of hiding one's true feelings or intentions

• contempt

• disdain

• dissimulation

• concealment

wisdom

• insight

• sagacity

• derision

• vex

Act of moving hands or body to express an idea or feeling

• contemplation

• agitation

• tranquility

• gesticulation

What is the past tense of the verb 'bid'?

• bade

• bidder

• bidden

• bidest

Characteristic of being smooth and agreeable

• ambiguity

• cordiality

• suavity

• pretense

The act of being hidden

• dissimulation

• concealment

• vex

• loathsome

sharp

• acute

• gesticulation

• derision

• vex

To irritate

• suavity

• harken

• audacity

• vex

boldness, over-confidence

• audacity

• scantlings

• reposed

• foresight

What is another term for an informed guess or hypothesis?

• suppositions

• suavity

• reposed

• bade